Kid Nichols Quotes

It's tempting, because as one senator said to me, 'We know if we invite baseball down, we'll draw a crowd'.

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

My friends and family know I love playing baseball - Little League through college. And every year in the annual Congressional Baseball Game for charity played at Nationals Stadium.

There's nothing like Opening Day in Dodger Stadium. You can't really describe it.

I play in the congressional baseball game.

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.

The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

Somebody has inquired as to whether I will be going to the opening baseball game. I hope to have that pleasure.

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.

President Bush threw out the first pitch Monday at Cincinnati's great American ball park. 18 Iraqis were killed.

That home run ties it up, 1-0.

The best show on television is Red Sox baseball. Everything else sucks.

So George Burns and my grandpa took me to my first baseball game.

I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was funny. What would he write? "Best Wishes, Some Guy in a Bird Suit"?"

It doesn't seem like the season really gets under way until you have your home opener

You know what I love best about baseball? The pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt - and that's just in the hot-dogs.

About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets).

As a fan, you want to be able to go to a football game, you want to feel secure, you want to be able to just watch the game, root for your team, and that's the way it should be.

My first baseman is George "Catfish" Metkovich from our 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates team, which lost 112 games. After a terrible series against the New York Giants, in which our center fielder made three throwing errors and let two balls get through his legs, manager Billy Meyer pleaded, "Can somebody think of something to help us win a game?" "I'd like to make a suggestion," Metkovich said. "On any ball hit to center field, let's just let it roll to see if it might go foul."